The epic hero monomyth is a pattern to a story that every epic hero story goes through. The journey that Luke Skywalker goes through in the movie star wars is a perfect example of the epic hero monomyth. Another story that goes through the epic hero monomyth is the anime Bleach. Out of the two the anime Bleach better exemplifies the epic hero monomyth. Both the Star wars movie and the anime Bleach are good examples of the epic hero monomyth for various reasons like going through all the stages of the monomyth.
The journey that Luke Skywalker underwent in the movie is a perfect example of the epic hero monomyth. At first Luke begins his journey on the farm working for his uncle. This is a good example of the status quo stage because he is living a regular life and nothing special is happening. Luke then gets a mission, a goal to accomplish, from princess Leia. This shows the call to adventure stage of the monomyth because he has to leave his regular life to embark on an adventure. Luke then gets help from an older wiser man called Ben Kenobi. This event shows the a**istance stage of the epic hero monomyth because Luke gets a**istance from Ben Kenobi.
Another story that does a good job at going through the epic hero monomyth is the anime Bleach. In this anime the main character Ichigo Kurosaki is living the normal life of a delinquent high school student until one day Rukia gives him soul reaper powers. This shows a perfect example of the status quo stage because Ichigo is living a regular life. Then Rukia is captured by other soul reapers and imprisoned for giving Ichigo soul reaper powers and is meant to be executed. This event is the call to adventure stage because Ichigo gets a mission to rescue Rukia. Ichigo then embarks on a journey to another world called the soul society the home of the soul reapers in order to rescue Rukia. This is important because this is a perfect example of the departure stage.
Between the story of bleach with Ichigo and Star Wars with Luke Skywalker, Ichigo is the better role model. Ichigo is the better role model because he is more mature than Luke. In the beginning Luke was an immature teenager but Ichigo was mature from the very beginning. Another reason for Ichigo being the better role model is that he was under more pressure than Luke but never once tried to give up. Ichigo had to face up against thirteen captains that were so powerful they could destroy entire cities with a single swing of a sword. Even so he never gave up but in comparison Luke only had to go up against a Darth Vader and the d**h star.
In conclusion, the hero from the story Bleach, Ichigo is a better role model than Luke Skywalker the hero of the Star wars movie because he is more responsible and has a greater duty but both characters and their stories follow all the steps of the epic hero monomyth. Both Luke and Ichigo had to go through the status quo stage and both had help from someone more experienced.